A streetcar mapper named Matt': Track Twenty-Nine's Matt' created a streetcar map. It's a nice looking map and a good starting point. I'd quibble with a few of the alignments, and we need several lines east of the river. But wherever we put them, we need a streetcar network yesterday (hopefully even half as good as the network of yesterday).

Rowhouse parking requirements steering Brooklyn toward havoc: While much of New York City has no parking requirements and the high transit ridership that comes with it, parking requirements in other areas—including new single-family townhouses in Brooklyn—will add one billion more VMT to the city by 2030 and change the pedestrian character of America's most pedestrian-friendly city. Park Slope, Brooklyn, for example, currently has 0.06 off-street spaces per dwelling unit and correspondingly low car ownership.

David Alpert is the founder of Greater Greater Washington. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He now lives with his wife and daughter in Dupont Circle.

I'm glad the NYT's article got the quote from the real estate developer. Up until now I just couldn't figure how street cars were any different than a bus except they have tracks that can grab your bicycle wheel or bend your rim. Now I know that they are commitment from the city that the bus will always be there, no matter how many people want to ride it.

I can't wait til they lay the track so I'll know where to live. I've always found bus schedules and their routes too confusing.

Streetcars would be such a great idea! The map looks pretty good except that like the Metro, it is overlooking that people have a need to use it not only to get from the burbs to the city center ... but also from burb to burb (without being forced to do a burb to downtown and back to a burb route). For example there should be a streetcar going from Friendship Heights to Connecticut Ave. to Silver Spring and so forth.

I'm not sure if you'll read this but I would like to see an expansion of your streetcar idea going deeper into areas such as PG County, Montgomery County, Arlington County, City of Alexandria and even Fairfax County.

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